This week was a little shorter because I was out Tuesday, but I worked mostly on my code for the IR remote and I made some good progress. I started by adding the other two settings I had (the one where half the strip is gold and half is purple and the other one where one color goes around). I corresponded both those settings to the 3 and 4 button on the remote. I changed the delay of the around code, making it circle quicker. I also tried to add a button to turn the whole strip completely off, which I set to the top left button. It worked for a little bit, but quickly I noticed that my code wasn't working right. When I trued to turn on the gold and purple setting on the third button, it would turn it on and off rather than just staying solid, however this wasn't a problem with the induvial gold and purple settings (I didn't test the around setting). My code was uploading, but I was getting a message telling me that I had low memory available on the board. Scott suggested that I clean up the code and rid of anything I don't need since I was using an example code found online, which I did. I also got rid of a lot of libraries that I wasn't using, however I was still getting the low memory error message. After doing everything I could, I changed the off button from the top left to the top middle, which worked for some reason. Even if cleaning up my code didn't solve my problem, I'm very glad I did it because it looks much cleaner and I actually understand everything.
I then tried to move my code into my student Google drive, but it went into the wrong folder and I wasn't able to recover it. Luckily, I found a save of my code before I changed the off button and cleaned up the code, so I re did everything I did to get it back to how it was before. The last step was to add one more setting to my remote. I wanted to add one that flashed gold and purple like a neon sign, and with some help from Cormac I got it half working. Instead of lighting up the whole strip at once, it would light up one pixel at a time before flashing. I got the delay fast enough to where it looked like the whole strip was going on at once, but I could still tell and it bothered me. After that and some feedback from my classmates, I decided to ditch that setting and make new one. Cormac enlightened me about a setting on his Christmas tree where it fades from one color to another, which I wanted to implement into my project with purple and gold. I got the purple to fade to nothing, however instead of slowly fading back it would instantly come on. I wasn't able to get it to work and that's something that I'm trying to figure out right now. I also made a GitHub account to better store my code and make sure it doesn't get lost like it almost did before.
